..However, during the next two decades, an alternative approach to caries prevention such as replacement therapy and a caries vaccine may become available as a more consistent method of controlling this disease...

..Thus, while the ART technique offers some benefits in restoring function and reducing the rate of caries progression, it is unlikely that current materials will be able to arrest caries progression completely in high-risk persons...

Clinical decision-making for coronal caries management in the permanent dentition

..Global residual stresses in the veneer layer, calculated using a fracture mechanics equation, were determined to be responsible for the increased strength and observed chipping, i.e., spallation in bilayer ceramic composites...

..max Press, Ivoclar Vivadent) used in posterior fixed partial dentures (FPDs); and (2) to test the hypothesis that mean annual enamel wear by an experimental core ceramic is comparable to the mean annual enamel wear by enamel of 38 microm...

Won suck OhDepartment of Prosthodontics, College of Dentistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, 32610 0435, USAJ Prosthet Dent 87:451-9. 2002

..Based on the literature, it can be concluded that material factors, their proper handling, and control of the patient's intrinsic risk factors related to wear are critically important to the reduction of enamel wear by dental ceramics...

Effect of ceramic surface treatment on tensile bond strength to a resin cement

..To characterize the high temperature viscoelastic properties of several dental ceramics by the determination of creep functions based on mid-span deflections measured in a beam-bending viscometer (BBV)...

Role of investment interaction layer on strength and toughness of ceramic laminates

..The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that the interaction of a core ceramic with investment material can significantly reduce the flexural strength and the fracture toughness of core/veneer ceramic laminates...